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Learn the Disciplines - Rockefeller Habits Four Decisions Workshop

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Aug 23, 2013

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Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Strategic Discipline, Culture of Discipline, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions

Positive Reinforcement – Frequency Required

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 19, 2013

In Bringing out the Best In People, Aubrey Daniels points out that the greatest issue with managers is not that they don’t understand the need for reinforcement and recognition, they simply don’t understand the amount of reinforcement required to create peak performance and a high performance organization. 

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Topics: Employee Recognition, employee performance, Aubrey Daniels, positive reinforcement

Positive Reinforcement: Make it Immediate

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 15, 2013

Not so long ago there was an emphasis on leadership to, “manage by wandering around.”  Tom Peters In Search of Excellence brought this principal into focus, although its origins supposedly stem back to executives at Hewlett Packard.

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Topics: employee performance, Aubrey Daniels, positive reinforcement, Discretionary Effort

Positive Reinforcement: How Much in Your Company’s is Contingent?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 12, 2013

How often have you wanted to believe that “hard work pays off?” 

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Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, employee performance, Aubrey Daniels, positive reinforcement

Human Behavior – One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 8, 2013

Each of us is different.  We are not all motivated by the same thing.  It’s a lesson that Aubrey Daniels consistently reinforces in Bringing Out the Best in People.  It’s the reason managing people is so challenging.  It requires thoughtful observation, persistent communication and enduring energy to discover and maintain relationships that support and encourage your people to be their best each day.

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Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, employee performance, positive reinforcement, human behavior

4 Rules of Positive Reinforcement

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 5, 2013

The behavior of people is the only way anything is accomplished in business.  Organizational accomplishment is dependent on behavior.  Improvements in quality, increases in productivity, or creativity are the result of asking people to change.

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Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, Employee Recognition, employee performance, positive reinforcement

Applying The Stockdale Paradox to Strategy

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 1, 2013

During my daily meditations I imagine myself healthy.  My blood clot is gone, my occasional dizzy spells a distant memory, my appetite is good, I taste and enjoy food as much as I once did. (Just not as much of it!)  I imagine myself exercising, enjoying walks with my wife, eating at restaurants and socializing with the people I love and care about. 

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What’s Your Strategic Statement of Values Worth?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 29, 2013

Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.

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Topics: employee engagement, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, Brand Ideal, Stengel 50, Strategic Statement of Values

Strategic Statement of Values – Gaining Employee Engagement

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jul 25, 2013

Organizational direction in your company can come in several forms.  I’m going to divide them into the emotional and objective since they serve two different but critical purposes.  On the emotional side we look at what might be labeled as “Strategic Statement of Values.”  On the opposite side, the objective is the Strategic Objective Statement which produces the Strategy Statement we’ve discussed in previous blogs. 

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Topics: employee engagement, strategy, Business Culture, Q12, Employee Survey

Why Mentoring Fuels Business Growth

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 22, 2013

At a recent client monthly meeting we discussed their new employee orientation (onboarding) process and how someone is always included to mentor the new person.  The mentoring program isn’t structured. Its primary intent is to provide an opportunity for feedback and concerns that they might not feel they can address with their supervisor.  The CEO played a video on why mentoring is important this company.  Immediately he observed there were additional opportunities mentoring offers to grow their business.

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Topics: employee engagement, Leadership Training, Leadership DNA, Connecting, Cost of Mis-hire

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